Index
back to Unification Church, Korea, South
| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unification Church | Korea, South | - | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 493. | "Moon, Sun Myung... leder of the Unification Church. Born in northern Korea, Moon was for a time affiliated with the Presbyterian church. " |
| Unification Church | Korea, South | 50,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Long, Robert Emmet (ed.). Religious Cults in America (The Reference Shelf: Volume 66 Number 4), New York: The H. W. Wilson Co. (1994). [Orig. source: article by Peter Maas, Korean correspondent for The Washington Post. From The New Republic, 203:7-8+ N 9 1990)]; pg. 158. | "...his religion has hardly taken hold in his own homeland of South Korea, where his critics say membership is a humble 50,000. " |
| Unification Church | Korea, South | - | 1.50% | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World) | Table "Religions " |
| Unification Church | Korea, South | - | - | - | - | 1998 | Rutherford, Scott (ed.) East Asia. London: Apa Publications (1998); pg. 210. | "About 500,000 Koreans belong to a wide variety of 'minor' religions. The most well-known internationally is the Unification Church, a movement started by Moon Sun-myung, a North Korean refugee, in 1954. " |
| Unification Church | Korea, South: Seoul | - | - | 30 units |
- | 1981 | Fichter, Joseph. The Holy Family of Father Moon. Kansas City, MO: Leaven Press (1985); pg. 120-121. | "Many Unificationists in the city of Seoul are not yet personally committed to the Home Church movement. As a matter of current practice they attend religious services on Sundays -- and sometimes on Wednesday evenings -- at any one of the 30 Unification centers... " |
| Unification Church | Netherlands | 150 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers & observers in the field of new religions [& org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions & any hard... data " |
| Unification Church | New York | - | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally published as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 775. | "Unification Church... World mission headquarters are located in mid-town Manhattan, and many activities are centered on an estate at Tarrytown, N.Y. and a seminary at Barryton, N.Y. " |
| Unification Church | New Zealand | 90 | 0.00% | - | - | 1986 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. Total 1986 NZ population: 3,263,228. |
| Unification Church | New Zealand | 87 | 0.00% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. Total 1991 NZ population: 3,373,853. |
| Unification Church | New Zealand | 132 | 0.00% | - | - | 1996 | *LINK* web site: "VisionNet Census " (created by a Protestant group); (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); original source: Statistics New Zealand | Data taken from New Zealand national censuses, based on self-identification, down to denominational level. Total 1996 NZ population: 3,616,633. |
| Unification Church | Oregon | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1959 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 241. | "...the first American converts to the Unification Church were gathered in Eugene, Oregon, during 1959. " |
| Unification Church | Russia | 500 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* Shterin, Marat S. "NEW RELIGIONS, CULTS AND SECTS IN RUSSIA: A CRITIQUE AND BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROBLEMS " | Of the groups I have studied, the Moonies have never had more than 800 members in Russia (they now have about 500) |
| Unification Church | United Kingdom: Britain | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers & observers in the field of new religions [& org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions & any hard... data " |
| Unification Church | United Kingdom: Britain | 1,250 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers & observers in the field of new religions [& org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions & any hard... data " |
| Unification Church | United Kingdom: Britain | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1999 | Chryssides, George. Exploring New Religions. London, U.K.: Cassells (1999). [Orig. source: Robin Marsh at UC headquarters, London.] | "I have selected the best available [statistics], providing a range where adjudication is impossible... Unification Church (Family Federation: Britain: 1,000 including Associate Members (1999); 600 - 700 committed members (1999)... " |
| Unification Church | USA | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1959 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 241. | "...the first American converts to the Unification Church were gathered in Eugene, Oregon, during 1959. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 37,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | Rudin, James A. & Marcia R. Rudin. Prison or Paradise: The New Religious Cults; Fortress Press: Philadelphia (1980); pg. 32. | "There are now about thirty-seven thousand members in the United States and, it claims, nearly 3 million more throughout the world. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 40,000 | - | - | - | 1981 | Robertson, Ian. Sociology (2nd ed.); New York, NY: Worth Publishers (1981) [2nd edition is updated since 1977 1st edition]; pg. 426. | "The sect claims over 40,000 members in the United States, although the actual number is probably much lower. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 5,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | Melton, J. Gordon & Robert L. Moore. The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism. New York: The Pilgrim Press (1984 [3rd printing; 1st printing 1982]); pg. 8. | "...audiences are surprised to learn that the Unification Church has less than 5,000 members in the U.S., because the press often gives the impression of far larger numbers. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 5,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | Melton, J. Gordon & Robert L. Moore. The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism. New York: The Pilgrim Press (1984 [3rd printing; 1st printing 1982]); pg. 125. | "The largest of these group number less than 10,000, and the two most famous--the Hare Krishnas and the Unification Church--number less than 5,000. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 40,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults in the 80s. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing (1982); pg. 163-164. | "...the Unification Church has a worldwide membership of approx. three million with about 40,000 members in the U.S. Of the 40,000 members 10,000 are dedicated core members who live at one of the church's communal centers and work full-time for the movement. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 20,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990); pg. 99. | "[Rev. Sun Myung Moon] has about 2 million followers worldwide, more than twenty thousand of them in the United States. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 5,000 | - | - | - | 1992 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 241. | "...after more than thirty years of missionizing, it is estimated that there have never been more than 5,000 followers of the Unification Church... in the United States, some of whom are from abroad. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 5,000 | - | - | - | 1992 | *LINK* werb site: New Heaven New Earth; web page: "Smorgasbord 4 (12/5/97) " (viewed 3 Feb. 1999); [Orig. source: "The Resurrection of Reverend Moon, " on FRONTLINE "(an award-winning news documentary show that aired on PBS January 21, 1992) "] | "the FRONTLINE report claimed that Sun Myung Moon presently has fewer than 5,000 American followers. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 50,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | "Unification Church Members Sing Praises of Arranged Marriages " in Salt Lake Tribune (Aug. 15, 1998); pg. C2. | "The Church has about 50,000 in the United States. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 5,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | Both the Church and its opponents have issued inflated numbers. It is probable that there are on the order of 5,000 dedicated members in the US, and a much larger number of persons affiliated in some way with the church. |
| Unification Church | USA | 30,000 | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* Spartos, Carlos. "Practical Piety: A Guide for the Perplexed " in Village Voice (New York), Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 1999; (viewed online, 29 Jan. 1999) | "Unification Church; Founder: Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Date: 1954; Membership: U.S.: 20 to 30,000. World: 1 to 2 million. " |
| Unification Church | USA | 10,000 | - | - | - | 2003 | Email correspondence from: Steve Dufour [stevenjdufour@earthlink.net], received 4 March 2005. | "I have some information for you on the numbers of Unification Church members. I have been a member since 1974 and it has always been hard to get a good estimate of the total number of members. One thing that did happen is that in February 2003 Rev. Moon asked one person from each church family in the USA to go to Korea for a two week outreach program. A bit over 2,400 went, which was the goal. Not every family was able to send someone and a few families sent more. Also a few Europeans went too and were counted with the Americans. "Americans " also includes people born in other countries and living in the USA, some joined the church here and some joined in their home countries. I would consider a family that would do this on short notice [if I remember correctly we were given about two weeks notice] and at some expense to be dedicated church members. So about 2,400 families, maybe 10,000 members in the USA. " |
| Unification Church | Utah | 36 | - | 1 unit |
- | 1998 | "Unification Church Members Sing Praises of Arranged Marriages " in Salt Lake Tribune (Aug. 15, 1998); pg. C2. | "Utah's nine-family Unification Church, located in a former Baptist church at 1969 S. View St., in Salt Lake City. " [Derived estimate of 36 adherents based on 4 members per family] |
| Unification Church | West, The | 250 | - | - | - | 1969 | Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 284. | "According to Barker (1984:64), by 1969 the number of Western converts to the Unification Church did not exceed 250. " |
| Unification Church | world | - | - | - | - | 1959 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally published as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 775. | "Freed [from Communist imprisonment in North Korea] by UN forces in 1950, he moved to Pusan in the south and laid the foundations for his church. The church spread to Japan and Western Europe, and as early as 1959 began its growth in the United States. " |
| Unification Church | world | - | - | 35 units |
2 countries |
1977 | Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 284. | "the Moonies grew to several hundred in and around Seoul, Korea, by the late 1950s... Lofland's (1977) 'Postscript' stated that the DPs [Moonies] had grown to only 35 places in these two countries [Korea & U.S.]. " |
| Unification Church | world | 3,037,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | Rudin, James A. & Marcia R. Rudin. Prison or Paradise: The New Religious Cults; Fortress Press: Philadelphia (1980); pg. 32. | "There are now about thirty-seven thousand members in the United States and, it claims, nearly 3 million more throughout the world. " |
| Unification Church | world | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults in the 80s. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing (1982); pg. 163-164. | "...the Unification Church has a worldwide membership of approx. three million with about 40,000 members in the U.S. " |
| Unification Church | world | 2,000,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Palmer, Spencer J. & Roger R. Keller. Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View, Brigham Young University: Provo, Utah (1990); pg. 99. | "[Rev. Sun Myung Moon] has about 2 million followers worldwide, more than twenty thousand of them in the United States. " |
| Unification Church | world | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | *LINK* Religious Requirements & Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains (1993) - (online ed. - 1998); contract #: MDA903-90-C-0062 w/ Dept. of Defense; J. Gordon Melton, Project Director & James Lewis.; Section: "HOLY SPIRIT ASSOCIATION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY " | "MEMBERSHIP: There are currently an estimated 3 million members worldwide. " |
| Unification Church | world | 1,100,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | O'Brien, J. & M. Palmer. The State of Religion Atlas. Simon & Schuster: New York (1993); pg. 35. | New Religious Movements map ( "committed adherents "): "Unification Church 1.1m " Founded in 1654. |
| Unification Church | world | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* Ireland, Rowan. Web site: La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; web page: "New Religious Associations in Australia ", written January 1998. (Viewed 4 July 1999). | "So far, 65 religious groups and associations have completed a questionnaire and are listed below... The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, commonly known as the Unification Church, was founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Seoul, South Korea in 1954. It is estimated that the movement now has three million members worldwide. |
| Unification Church | world | 250,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | *LINK* web site: "News From Bree "; web page: "Fastest Growing Religion? " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); "Last Update on 29th November 1998 " | "The Unification Church, believed to have around 250,000 members. It was founded in the same year as the CoS. " |
| Unification Church | world | 500,000 | - | - | 150 countries |
1998 | *LINK* web site: Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | Total membership is difficult to estimate, but is probably many hundreds of thousands world wide. |
| Unification Church | world | 3,000,000 | - | - | - | 1999 | Chryssides, George. Exploring New Religions. London, U.K.: Cassells (1999). [Orig. source: Robin Marsh at UC headquarters, London.] | "I have selected the best available [statistics], providing a range where adjudication is impossible... Unification Church (Family Federation:... World: estimates vary between 1m and 3m (1999) " |
| Unification Church | world | 2,000,000 | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* Spartos, Carlos. "Practical Piety: A Guide for the Perplexed " in Village Voice (New York), Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 1999; (viewed online, 29 Jan. 1999) | "Unification Church; Founder: Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Date: 1954; Membership: U.S.: 20 to 30,000. World: 1 to 2 million. " |
| Unification Church - full-time | Africa & South America | 1,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 152. | "It is difficult to assess accurately the full-time membership for the rest of the world, but there are some tens of thousands in Asia (nearly all in Japan and South Korea) and perhaps a further thousand in Africa and South America. " |
| Unification Church - full-time | Germany | 600 | - | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* web site: "Religionswissenschaftlicher Medien- und Informationsdienst e.V. " [REMID: Religious Studies Media and Information Service, Marburg, Germany]; web page: "Informationen und Standpunkte " (viewed 2 Aug. 1999). | Table: "Religious communities in Germany: Numbers of members " [data published July, 1999]; Listed as "Vereinigungskirche " in table. Source: REMID.; In comments column: "mit befreundetem Umfeld ca. 1,500 " [ "with friendly surrounding field approx. 1,500 "] |
| Unification Church - full-time | Germany, West | 900 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers & observers in the field of new religions [& org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions & any hard... data "; Total: 3,400; Full-time: 900. |
| Unification Church - full-time | Germany, West | 1,500 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | "Another more detailed assessment for West Germany covering many more movements concludes that well over one million people are involved or 'influenced' by new religions, with a 'full-time' membership of 64,200. The estimated full time membership for 12 of these movements is: " [table] |
| Unification Church - full-time | United Kingdom: Britain | 250 | - | - | - | 1987 | Clarke, Peter B. The New Evangelists: Recruitment, Method and Aims of New Religious Movements, London: Ethnographics (1987); pg. 10 to 14. | Table with following columns: Movement; Total Membership; Full-Time Members; P/T Members; Sympathizers.; For this study Clarke "approached researchers & observers in the field of new religions [& org./church reps.] to obtain their opinions & any hard... data " |
| Unification Church - full-time | United Kingdom: Britain | 700 | - | - | - | 1999 | Chryssides, George. Exploring New Religions. London, U.K.: Cassells (1999). [Orig. source: Robin Marsh at UC headquarters, London.] | "I have selected the best available [statistics], providing a range where adjudication is impossible... Unification Church (Family Federation: Britain: 1,000 including Associate Members (1999); 600 - 700 committed members (1999)... " |
| Unification Church - full-time | USA | 10,000 | - | - | - | 1982 | Petersen, William J. Those Curious New Cults in the 80s. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing (1982); pg. 163-164. | "...the Unification Church has a worldwide membership of approx. three million with about 40,000 members in the U.S. Of the 40,000 members 10,000 are dedicated core members who live at one of the church's communal centers and work full-time for the movement. " |
| Unification Church - full-time | USA | 2,000 | - | - | - | 1990 | Long, Robert Emmet (ed.). Religious Cults in America (The Reference Shelf: Volume 66 Number 4), New York: The H. W. Wilson Co. (1994). [Orig. source: article by Anson Shupe, professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana/Purdue University. From Christian Century (107:764-766 Ag 22, 1990)]; pg. 151. | "Opponents of Moon have always exaggerated his church's membership figures to highlight the threat of the movement. It is still not unusual to read in the press that the Unification Church has 10,000 or more full-time U.S. members and over 25,000 'associates.' The more ludicrous estimates have stretched as high as 80,000 members. But internal church documents show clearly that even when its visibility hight, there were only about 2,000 committed Unification Church members for a... in the U.S. " |
| Unification Church - full-time | West, The | 10,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 152. | "...founded in Seoul, Korea, in 1954... It spread to Japan, but had little success in the West until Moon moved to the USA in the early 1970s. Since then the public visibility of the movement has increased rapidly, but in fact there have never been as many as 10,000 full-time members in the West at any one time. " |
| Unification Church - full-time | world | - | - | - | - | 1987 | Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 152. | "...founded in Seoul, Korea, in 1954... It spread to Japan, but had little success in the West until Moon moved to the USA in the early 1970s. Since then the public visibility of the movement has increased rapidly, but in fact there have never been as many as 10,000 full-time members in the West at any one time. It is difficult to assess accurately the full-time membership for the rest of the world, but there are some tens of thousands in Asia (nearly all in Japan and South Korea) and perhaps a further thousand in Africa and South America. " |
| Union American Methodist Episcopal Church | world | 27,560 | - | 256 units |
- | 1990 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 164. | "This was one of the first black bodies to establish an independent Methodist church. A group of members left the Asbury Methodist Church in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1805... [in ] 1813... they built a church and incorported as the Union Church of Africans. Defections from the membership were responsible for the formation of another body, known as as the African Union Church, which forced the change to the present name... the church claims 27,560 members in 256 churches. " |
| Union American Methodist Episcopal Church | world | 15,000 | - | 55 units |
- | 1993 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). | - |
| Union D'Eglises Baptistes Francaises Au Canada | Canada | 1,969 | - | 23 units |
- | 1991 | Bedell, Kenneth (ed.). Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 1993. Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn (1993); pg. 244-247. | Table 1: Canadian Current Statistics. (# of adherents is from table's "inclusive membership " column, not the sometimes smaller "full communicant or confirmed members " col.) Listed in table as "Union D'Eglises Baptistes Francaises Au Canada. " |
| Union de Igrejas Evangelicas de Angola | Angola | - | - | - | - | 1999 | *LINK* "Southern Africa " in SIM NOW, Feb. 1999 (vol. #85); (viewed online 6 July 1999); SIM International web site. | "Our [SIM's] missionaries work alongside the UIEA Church (Union de Igrejas Evangelicas de Angola), which grew out of the ministries of Africa Evangelical Fellowship... " |
| Union des Eglises Baptistes au Rwanda | Rwanda | 53,000 | - | 64 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals " |
| Union Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Moldova | Moldova | 17,200 | - | 275 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals " |
| Union Nacional Iglesias Bautistes de Costa Rica | Costa Rica | 1,040 | - | 17 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* Baptist World Alliance web site; page: "BWA Statistics " (viewed 31 March 1999). | "Figures are for BWA affiliated conventions/unions only (no independents included). "; Table with 3 columns: Country, "Churches ", & "Members "; "1997/1998 Totals " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | North America | 1,300,000 | - | 850 units |
- | 1993 | *LINK* Religious Requirements & Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains (1993) - (online ed. - 1998); contract #: MDA903-90-C-0062 w/ Dept. of Defense; J. Gordon Melton, Project Director & James Lewis.; Section: "Reform Judaism " | "Reform Judaism: ADDRESS: Union of American Hebrew Congregations... MEMBERSHIP: 850 Member congregations; 1.3 million members. " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | USA | - | - | 308 units |
- | 1943 | Ferm, Vergilius (ed). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976; 1st ed. pub. 1945 by Philosophical Library); pg. 406. | "The Union of American Hebrew Congregations [Reform] (org. 1873) numbers (1943) 308 congregations consisting of 62,209 families. More than 450 rabbis belong to the Central Conference of American Rabbis (org. 1889). " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | USA | - | - | 334 units |
- | 1948 | Wertheimer, Jack. A People Divided: Juadism in Contemporary America. New York: Basic Books (A Division of Harper Collins) (1993); pg. 5. | "...the Reform movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations boasted three hundred more member congregations in 1966 than in 1948 (664 versus 334). " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | USA | - | - | 664 units |
- | 1966 | Wertheimer, Jack. A People Divided: Juadism in Contemporary America. New York: Basic Books (A Division of Harper Collins) (1993); pg. 5. | "...the Reform movement's Union of American Hebrew Congregations boasted three hundred more member congregations in 1966 than in 1948 (664 versus 334). " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | USA | 1,200,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | *LINK* web site: "Religions and Health Care " by Fr. J Mahoney, M.Div.; web page: "Membership Reported " (viewed 20 Feb. 1999); [Orig. source: J. Gordon Melton. Encyclopedia of American Religions, 6th edition, copyright 1999, Gale Publishing] | Table: "Membership Reported "; 3 key columns: "Religious Group ", "Year ", "Membership " (which always specifies location, whether U.S., North America, or Total]; listed in table as "Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform) " |
| Union of American Hebrew Congregations | USA | 1,000,000 | - | 686 units |
- | 1994 | Chalfant, H. Paul, et al. Religion in Contemporary Society (3rd Ed.); Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers (1994); pg. 196. | "The most 'American' of the branches, the Reform branch, counts 1 million members in the 686 congregations of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. " |
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, continued 